Building Maintenance Officer

Title

Building Maintenance Officer

Location

Hybrid working between our York office and home, with the requirement to travel to sites

Salary

From £25,152 per annum, depending on skills and experience / 36 hours per week / Permanent

Job type

Permanent

Ref

15455

We're the organisation that looks after England's most important buildings and monuments, making sure our country's amazing history is available for everyone to enjoy. From world-famous prehistoric sites to grand medieval castles, Roman forts to a Cold War bunker, we bring the history of England to life.

The Estates North team are looking for a Building Maintenance Officer to join our team on a permanent basis, working 36 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary from £25,152, depending on skills, experience and location

- 25 days' holiday plus Bank Holidays pro rata rising to 28 days after 3 years

- Matched pension contributions up to a maximum of 10%

- Flexible hours

- The opportunity to progress your career within the heritage sector

- Apprenticeship opportunities

- Subscriptions to professional bodies

- Free access to all English Heritage sites for you another adult and up to 6 children

- 25% discount in our shops and cafes

- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Shared Parental leave

- Options to buy additional leave

- An inclusive working atmosphere where everyone from all backgrounds, religions and with different needs will be supported

- Opportunities to go to some of our great live music or history events

The role has the flexibility to work from home with a base at our territory office in York. You must be able to drive in order to travel across the northern region to visit the sites within your territory, but you will primarily operate within Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

Do you have a passion for historic buildings and environments? Do you understand the emerging threats and opportunities within the heritage sector? Do you want to make a difference within a multi-disciplined team of building professionals to ensure the care, repair, and enhancement of the National Collection of historic sites and monuments in the North of England?

As a Building Maintenance Officer your role will primarily support Building Conservation and Building Services Managers to deliver cyclical and capital repair and enhancement schemes across building conservation and mechanical/engineering. As a result, we are looking for a resourceful and creative person who will relish the opportunity to learn about and make valuable contributions to safeguarding some truly outstanding historic places designated as Scheduled Monuments, Listed Buildings and UNESCO World Heritage sites.

The Estates Department is a group of construction, historic buildings, and landscape professionals, specialising in the repair, enhancement and conservation of buildings, gardens, and landscapes. The Estate team manages the maintenance of the historic and non-historic Estate on behalf of English Heritage. They are based in small territory teams across the country. The territory Senior Estate Manager has overall responsibility for delivery of conservation maintenance, and they are supported by Estate Managers (EM), Building Conservation Managers (BCM), Building Services Managers (BSM), Landscape Managers (LM) and other support officers and assistants.

This is a development role where you will be trained to look after our specialist portfolio and should expect to carry out tasks detailed in the Job Description.

This is an incredible opportunity for highly motivated person who wants to help safeguard the North of England's most architecturally and historically significant places, whilst gaining an increased understanding of building conservation and services.

What's more, as part of our charity bringing history to life, you'll be supported and encouraged to share your ideas, inspire others and make a difference to the way England's rich past is experienced.

English Heritage's Estates North department seeks a highly motivated person who could have already started their career in historic building conservation and would like to develop their knowledge alongside other heritage professionals, or have practical experience of maintaining complex historic buildings/ruins but now wants to move towards contract administration and project management to enable industry best practice.

To be considered as a Building Maintenance Officer you will need:

- Experience of maintaining a diverse range of properties,

- Experience within the historic and conservation environment,

- Hold, or work towards HNC/HND or equivalent in an M&E related, construction management, building conservation or similar relevant discipline,

- Working knowledge of current legislation and regulations covering building and civil engineering works and other relevant statutory regulations and bylaws (e.g. Health and Safety, CDM) Regulations 2015.

- Computer literacy, with knowledge of MS office suite.

Please see job description for the full list of essential requirements for the role before submitting an application.

Find out more about us and what we do here, https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about -us/ here. Meet some of our People and hear about why they enjoy working with us here https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/jobs/working-at-historic-places/.

Everyone is welcome at English Heritage. We are always looking for people who reflect the diversity of the country today, to help us make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities and places we serve. From remote sites to inner city monuments, from regional teams to our Head Office, the diversity of our teams is critical to making sure our heritage is inclusive, exciting and accessible. We continually look for new ways to promote the past in a way that is inclusive to all and that celebrates the cultural diversity of England's heritage. By joining us, you will be part of a charity that is already on an exciting journey to tell everyone's story with an inclusive working atmosphere where everyone from all backgrounds, religions and with different needs will be supported. To support this work, we have a number of EDI networks that you can join as either a member or ally. These networks include Ethnic Diversity, Faith & Belief, Social Mobility, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergence and Gender Specific Issues

We would be delighted to hear from you if you would like to talk to us about this role before you apply, e.g. regarding workplace adjustments, working patterns, please contact Stephen Gandolfi, Senior Estate Manager, on ***************@english-heritage.org.uk . No agencies please.

Interviews will be held on Friday 10th May at English Heritage offices, 37 Tanner Row, York YO1 6WP.

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